Has anyone made a zombie game where you actually clear/retake an infested city? Lots of games have you raid a city to build a base somewhere else, (7D2D, unturned, now Vein, etc.) or just do things in an infested city (Dying Light, RE, etc.) sometimes culminating in some sort of big climax that results in or implies the end of the zombie times, or maybe you just leave, but are there any that have that element of progression where you slowly take more of the map and the zombies aren’t just randomly spawned in a radius around the player regardless of how many you knock down? The closest I have ever found was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.
It’s surprisingly decent. I avoided it because I really don’t like isometric games and it seemed really janky for a modern title, but it was pretty fun once I got the hang of it. Unfortunately it’s not quite finished and missing a decent amount of features. The next beta adds a ton to the game but multiplayer isn’t stable yet and thus isn’t available without mods, which is unfortunate because the game is much better with friends.
If the game is the sort of thing you’re super into, it’s worth picking up now. Otherwise waiting for the stable beta 43 would probably be the play.
To be fair, calling Project Zomboid unfinished is like calling Dwarf Fortress unfinished. Zomboid’s feature set in its current state for Build 41 is already much higher than the feature sets of a lot of “finished” games on the market, so even though the developers consider it unfinished, an average player could have a hard time seeing it as unfinished.
If an update dropped that said something like:
That’s the kind of update you expect from a game like Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, and Project Zomboid.
The thing I took issue with is the crafting system is NOT fleshed out in b41. I spent so much time gathering materials and leveling up tailoring, and now I can… Add patches to clothing. There’s hardly any equipment you can make for yourself, forcing you to scavenge everything. I know they added a ton in b42 and I’m hype for the stable, but right now once you hit a certain point the game feels hollow.
Multiplayer works great for me modless. It is absolutely available. When is the last time you played?
Multiplayer is not available in Unstable Build 42. It is unstable and requires mods to use in Build 42.
Still perfectly playable in Build 41 though.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, I misunderstood. Didn’t realize build 42 unstable was playable now, nice!
This is a good disclaimer for what is, at the end of the day, an unfinished project. It’s well worth it for me though, but then again I don’t mind playing solo.